Newstag:www.vegsource.com,2009-05-23://12015-06-29T23:39:40ZMovable Type Pro 6.0.3Raising Vegan Kids - Meet Nina & Randa (VIDEO)tag:www.vegsource.com,2015://1.33162015-06-08T18:00:10Z2015-06-29T23:39:40ZMy wife, Sabrina, was hit by a truck a couple of weeks ago and seriously injured. It would not be...Jeff Nelsonhttp://www.vegsource.com/admin/mt-cp.cgi?__mode=view&blog_id=1&id=21
My wife, Sabrina, was hit by a truck a couple of weeks ago and seriously injured. It would not be inaccurate to say we're in a family crisis right now, and our daughters, Nina & Randa, stepped up and offered to do a video for the VegSource YouTube channel -- which is very nice of them.

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Cure Food Poisoning - Dr. McDougall (VIDEO)tag:www.vegsource.com,2015://1.32982015-05-06T03:02:03Z2015-07-31T08:22:28ZWe previously ran a video with Dr. McDougall describing how the modern diet most people eat constitutes food poisoning. It's...Jeff Nelsonhttp://www.vegsource.com/admin/mt-cp.cgi?__mode=view&blog_id=1&id=21
We previously ran a video with Dr. McDougall describing how the modern diet most people eat constitutes food poisoning. It's the reason so many people are sick, on medication, dying early, and overweight.

Today we wanted to bring you Dr. McDougall's cure for food poisoning.

Watch video now (17 mins.):

To purchase this full talk from Dr. McDougall and 13 other presentations from our Expo 2014, go here:

If you haven't heard, Kayla Itsines who sells an expensive diet and workout Bikini Program has sued Freelee the Banana Girl and Durianrider, who promote a "Raw Till 4" diet (raw foods all day and a starched-based dinner).

In this video I share my opinions and commentary about the litigation. (15 mins.)

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Top Athlete: Why I Went Vegan (VIDEO)tag:www.vegsource.com,2014://1.31172014-05-17T02:10:59Z2014-12-11T05:22:55ZHe's VEGAN -- James "Lightning" Wilks, an MMA fighter best known to many for winning The Ultimate Fighter TV challenge,...Jeff Nelsonhttp://www.vegsource.com/admin/mt-cp.cgi?__mode=view&blog_id=1&id=21
He's VEGAN -- James "Lightning" Wilks, an MMA fighter best known to many for winning The Ultimate Fighter TV challenge, US vs. UK. James holds a Black belt in Tae Kwon Do and a Brown belt in Brazilian Jui Jitsu.

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AJ Loses MORE Weight -- on Veggies & Starch (VIDEO)tag:www.vegsource.com,2014://1.30862014-04-08T20:45:54Z2014-12-11T09:15:03ZJeff Nelsonhttp://www.vegsource.com/admin/mt-cp.cgi?__mode=view&blog_id=1&id=21Editor's Note: Chef AJ has previously written on VegSource.com about her journey to optimal weight and health. She tried various approaches over many years as a vegan, and finally succeeded by simply focusing on low calorie-dense vegetables and high-satisfaction starches -- a proven combo for longterm health and permanent weight loss, while eating all you want. Since her last article on the subject, AJ has lost another 14 pounds! I asked her about it, and am sharing her email response here, with her permission:

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Hi Jeff,

How are you? I am so excited to tell you what’s been happening to my body as you are the one who first encouraged me to go public with my weight loss story 2 years ago. When you ran the story on Vegsource last November I weighed 132 pounds, and I figured I was done losing weight. My BMI was 21 and my doctor said I didn’t need to lose any more weight. And I really wasn’t trying to, but I lost another 14 pounds!!!

I am telling you this not to gloat, but because when you hear how it happened, I know you will get a kick out of it, because like me, I’m pretty sure you are sick of “healthy fats” being glorified while complex carbs, like potatoes and rice are being vilified.

As you know, I stopped eating nuts and nut butters on 1-2-12. When you saw me 5 months later at Worldfest, in May of 2012, I had already lost 20 pounds. And the about only thing I did was stop the nuts. In August of 2014 my weight was down to 135. I was still eating seeds, tahini and avocado.

I was working at True North and one day they served their famous guacamole. Dr. Goldhamer asked us if we knew what a serving size of guacamole was. Nobody answered. He said it was 2 Tablespoons! I thought per chip maybe! Sure enough, I checked a label of commercial guacamole and that’s what it said. Who the heck can eat just 2 tablespoons?

Just for fun I went on the Haas avocado website. Now these are the folks who sell the avocados so I’m pretty sure they want you eating a lot of them. And I was shocked that a serving of avocado was 1/5 of an avocado! Do you know ANYONE who cuts 1/5 of an avocado and saves the rest? My weight had been stable at 135 for almost a year now but I was curious about something.

If stopping the nuts would have such an impact, what would happen if I refrained from eating avocado?

A 3 pound weight loss in 3 months, that’s what!

So I was doing really well and maintaining my weight, but I found that I was still overeating at night. Even though I was overeating on A+ food like fruits and veggies, I didn’t like feeling stuffed and bloated, even though it wasn’t impacting my weight.

I discussed this with Dr. Doug Lisle (the psychologist at True North and The McDougall Program who co-wrote “The Pleasure Trap”), and he said it was because I wasn’t eating enough starch!

I had already proven you could eat potatoes and lose weight but I still had carbophobia and was afraid to eat grains. I had still bought into the nonsense that grains were fattening and used to fatten cattle. Anyway, Dr. Lisle, who was the one who got me to do the “nut experiment”, asked me to do another experiment the next time I would be at True North. I was scheduled to be there for 5 weeks beginning on 12-1-13 and he wanted me to eat grains with abandon. He predicted that what would happen was that either my weight would stay the same or I would gain 1 pound.

Well here is the result of the experiment:

I arrived at True North on Sunday evening December 1, 2013 and immediately started eating grains with abandon. The served oats or polenta every day for breakfast, and all kinds of rice for lunch and dinner. Brown rice, red rice, black rice, wild rice (technically a seed), buckwheat (the only grain I did not care for), and quinoa (also technically a seed).

Like all the slim staff members at True North, I loaded my plate at every meal, sometimes eating 4 cups of rice at a time. Turns out I really love the stuff. I spent my entire life avoiding it and I was fat. Then I spent 5 weeks gorging on it, and do you know what happened?

In just 27 days I lost another 5 pounds!!!

And due to severe asthma, I was not able to exercise at all during the experiment and for another month after. My dear friend Miyoko Schinner, “The Cheese Whisperer,’ who is Japanese, eats rice every day and always says, “Ever see a fat Asian”? I have known people who went to Duke and did the rice diet and they all lost a tremendous amount of weight -- eating just rice!

I came home from 5 glorious weeks at True North eating Chef Bravo’s food (including SOS-free salad dressing made from tahini or sesame seeds) weighing 127 pounds!!! So I called Dr. Lisle and told him that once again, he was right, and I asked him if I could do one final experiment. As you know, Dr. McDougall has been saying for 40 years “The Fat You Eat Is the Fat You Wear” so I wondered what would happen if I also stopped eating seeds?

On 1-2-14 I stopped all seeds and tahini less than 2 months later, on 2-27-14, the day I left to speak on the vegan cruise I weighed 124!!! 3 more pounds in less than 2 months just by cutting the fat again!!!

So, how the heck did I get down to 118? Well, the final 6 pounds were due to exercise. I finally joined a gym and hired a personal trainer and I am working out for the first time in my life. Even though I’m thin, my body composition is not ideal as my body fat is 30%.

So hopefully next time you see me, Jeff, I will be buff!!! :)

So, why am I telling you this? Because I’m so tired of people, especially woman, being afraid to eat carbs!!!

I lost almost 50 pounds eating them and was never hungry and never felt deprived. Using the principle of calorie density I can literally stuff my pie hole at every meal, as long as I eat the right foods. I truly can eat more and weigh less.

I get at least 100 e-mails a day asking me how I lost weight. I made a YouTube video with the answer (see end of article for video), but, it’s really not rocket science. Everything I did was written in Dr. McDougall’s Maximum Weight Loss book over 20 years ago.

In January I had the privilege of speaking at Rancho La Puerta for the second time. The dietitian told us that a serving of cooked rice was ½ cup. While everyone else was eating these tiny spa portions, my friend Rebecca (who you may recall has lost 160 pounds on the program) and I piled at least 4 cups of rice on our plates.

People stared at us and said, “Are you really going to eat all that?” and we said “Yes, and then I am going to get a second plate."

On my last evening there I was seated at a table with another one of the speakers who introduced himself as David. I ordered some steamed greens WITHOUT OIL and he asked me why I did not eat oil. I gave him a scientific answer and then he said that he was -- Dr. David Perlmutter, the author of” Grain Brain”.

He said that if I didn’t eat oil I was setting myself up for heart disease and Alzheimer’s disease, and that at 99 mg/dl my cholesterol was dangerously low. When his greens, which were sautéed in oil, arrived at the table, he asked for more oil and poured it over the top!

Most of the e-mails I get from my story that ran on Vegsource are positive. A few are from angry people insisting that they were able to lose weight eating nuts. When I really quiz them about it, it turns out that they were quite overweight and were able to lose weight when switching from the Standard American Diet to almost any diet, in spite of eating nuts, not because of them. Once the “nut police” find out I’m no longer eating avocado or seeds I’m sure the shitake mushrooms are going to hit the fan!

Already people are asking me where I’m getting my Omega 3 fatty acids”. Oh, and now, I’m being called names like “anorexic, too skinny and emaciated."

When I was fat, very few people said anything. But the minute I trimmed down, stopped eating nuts and started eating potatoes, well suddenly everyone’s a nutritionist.

I meet so many people, especially women, who have tried every diet on the planet, are still fat and considering gastric bypass surgery. They have been brought up fearing carbs, even the complex unrefined ones, and think the only way they can be thin is to exercise obsessively and eat thimble sized portions of food. They are so afraid to try this way of eating.

But you know what happens when they do? They all lose weight!

I once read that Americans spend something like 800 times more on weight loss than is spent on hunger relief worldwide. If people just ate rice and potatoes, with some fruits and veggies, like I do now, we could probably solve both world hunger and the obesity epidemic at the same time.

Thanks for all you do and hope to see you soon.

Love & Rice,

AJ

WATCH AJ EXPLAIN HOW SHE EATS: (15 minutes)

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Feel Bad if Somone "Unlikes" You on Facebook? Watch this Video!tag:www.vegsource.com,2014://1.30252014-01-28T02:07:01Z2014-04-07T16:25:00ZBestselling author and leading psychologist Guy Winch PhD gave a fascinating presentation at this year's Healthy Lifestyle Expo. The title...Jeff Nelsonhttp://www.vegsource.com/admin/mt-cp.cgi?__mode=view&blog_id=1&id=21
Bestselling author and leading psychologist Guy Winch PhD gave a fascinating presentation at this year's Healthy Lifestyle Expo.

The title was" "How to Prevent Common Psychologic 'Injuries' -- Such as Rejection, Brooding, or Loneliness -- from Impacting Your Health"

In this segment he talks about rejection. Everyone feels it at some point or another.

Maybe you post a photo on Facebook and no one likes it? And you feel rejected?

Yes, there's plenty of rejection in social media.

Did you know that we experience the pain of rejection in the same area of our brain as we do when we experience physical pain?

In fact, rejection is the only emotion which affects that area of the brain.

Why?

Watch top psychologist Guy Winch PhD from our Expo in this short excerpt talking about a fascinating subject."

Video (10 minutes):

To get Dr. Winch's full talk, as well as a dozen other life-saving presentations, order the 2013 GET HEALTHY NOW WHITE DVD series, at this link:

You may be pre-disposed to getting cancer from your genes, but your nutritional decisions can trump your genes. In other words, you can avoid -- and even reverse -- cancers through diet.

Professor Campbell, renowned author of The China Study, gave two fascinating and sweeping talks during the Expo this year. He spoke about his life's work and his vast research on the mechanisms that promote cancer.

A lot of it comes down to this: you can stop your cancer genes from developing cancer by dramatically reducing or removing animal protein from your diet. Or, if you don't have much genetic tendancy toward cancer, you can still get cancer -- just by eating or drinking a lot of animal protein, such as milk products.

Watch this fascinating 10 minute excerpt from Dr. Campbell's talk:

Professor Campbell is the renowned author of The China Study, and gave two fascinating and sweeping talks during the Expo this year. He spoke about his life's work and his vast research he has conducted on the mechanisms that cause and promote -- and prevent -- cancer.

A lot of it comes down to: high levels of animal protein consumption, such as through dairy products, is devastating. If you want to avoid cancer, stop eating what research shows is cancer's preferred fuel.

Watch this fascinating 10 minute excerpt from Dr. Campbell's talk:

To get both of Dr. Campbell's full talks, as well as 10 other life-saving presentations, order the 2013 GET HEALTHY NOW WHITE DVD series, at this link:

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Soul Food is a Vestige of Slavery (VIDEO)tag:www.vegsource.com,2013://1.29572013-10-23T18:12:54Z2013-11-08T00:39:10ZSlavery was responsible for the death of countless African Americans. Soul food, a vestige of slavery, is doing the same...Jeff Nelsonhttp://www.vegsource.com/admin/mt-cp.cgi?__mode=view&blog_id=1&id=21
Slavery was responsible for the death of countless African Americans.

Soul food, a vestige of slavery, is doing the same thing.

This is an excerpt from a recent talk given by Milton Mills MD. Dr. Mills was addressing graduates of the Meals For Health program -- a program to help bring healthy plant-based eating to underserved communities.

This Meals For Health program was provided through the Missionary Progressive Baptist Church in Berkeley, California.

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Soy sauce alternatives healthier? Not really (VIDEO)tag:www.vegsource.com,2013://1.28442013-06-08T04:30:13Z2015-07-01T03:33:52ZThe problem is too much sodium. Americans eat WAY too much, and there's a price to pay. So keeping your...Jeff Nelsonhttp://www.vegsource.com/admin/mt-cp.cgi?__mode=view&blog_id=1&id=21
The problem is too much sodium.

Americans eat WAY too much, and there's a price to pay.

So keeping your sodium intake low can pay big dividends.

What about soy sauce alternatives?

It's probably not what you think.

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Jeff Novick deconstructs food labels and teaches his easy 3-point system to know whether a food is good, bad -- or at least which one is the healthiest choice.

This is a short excerpt from Jeff's nearly 3-hour SHOPPING SCHOOL program. More info about the DVD here http://bit.ly/VCWesB

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Label Reading: Fruit Juice is Worse Than Cola (VIDEO)tag:www.vegsource.com,2013://1.28402013-06-06T03:43:30Z2014-11-29T08:10:21ZUnless you only visit the produce section of your local grocery store, you had better know how to understand food...Jeff Nelsonhttp://www.vegsource.com/admin/mt-cp.cgi?__mode=view&blog_id=1&id=21
Unless you only visit the produce section of your local grocery store, you had better know how to understand food labels.

That's because many packaged foods are junk and will compromise your health.

Fortunately, renowned dietitian Jeff Novick MS RD has declassified the secret label code. In his new DVD program called SHOPPING SCHOOL, Jeff puts into action his easy three-point system for understanding any food label within just a few seconds.

Watch this excerpt where Jeff discusses juices.

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For more information and to order your own copy of SHOPPING SCHOOL, click here: http://bit.ly/VCWesB